I love this - this bit of it, anyway I know I'm better for having had to learn to always consider someone else and our relationship as well as my own wants and direction from early on. I'm not the same person I would've been had I not met DH young, but I think that resulted in the best version of me

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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.~H.D.Thoreau

I was 23 he was 32, we will celebrate 33 years on June 16th! DH jokes that being married is the longest job he has ever held!! It's been very good, a few rocky patches that were out of our control, like my breast cancer that actually made it better!!! I have friends who dated in HS got married the week after HS graduation and are still together!!!

Well, we aren't married yet, and are tossing around the idea of getting married before the year's out (we'd be eloping, so that gives plenty of time for planning!), but that would put us at 28 and 32, and the date I'm hoping for is our 10th anniversary. We were great friends for about a year before we began dating.

Every marriage is as different as the people in them, but you can't help but use your life experiences to judge the validity of others' actions.

I married a foreign husband and moved internationally at 21, it lasted 16 months. A terrible, naive life choice - I had only known him for a few months beforehand (we met while traveling) and that poor decision has impacted the rest of my life greatly. I have recovered from it not because "everything happens for a reason," but because I did excellent damage control.

I married my current husband after living together for 3 years, at 27 and 32, and we've been married for a year now. This relationship is far healthier and happier (and EASIER!) - not because of our age, but because of our personalities and compatibility. But I still can't help looking at people getting married at that age and thinking, "Yeah, I thought I knew what I was doing too!" I can only hope it goes better for them!

I was 26, DH was 32. Celebrating 2 years next month! My parents started dating when they were 27 and 24, got married when they were 39 and 36, and in August will be celebrating 27 years of marriage and 39 years of being together! They're still as madly in love as ever.

-Hot chocolate butterflies dance through my heart and tell me you're the one.Come take a sip of this so I can look into your beautiful eyes and say, "Ouch! I spilled some on my lap, burning my leg, but I don't mind. I'm with you."

I was 34, and my husband was 35. We didn't meet until our late 20s and neither of us were married before. I had a rule growing up that I wouldn't marry until I was at least 28, but once I got there, I found I was resistant to the idea of marriage. I got over it! We will celebrate 2 years married and 8 years together later this year.

Enerchi: my theory about age is that when we get to a certain age, we are entitled to start using dog years. So that would obviously make us both much younger than 43...

Yeah, from the outside it sounds like some sort of show on the Hallmark Channel, but in reality, there were never any guarantees. In spite of the fated look, neither of us thought we had a chance in hell after "the second iteration", and there was a lot of pain on my side, and regret on his. But even though we are both still astonished at times that this happened, we both learned that forgiveness is the key and love can (in my case, re-)find you at any age.

And I hope you DO find that love one day...

In recent decades, many people have incorrectly conflated "freedom of speech" with being able to express an uninformed, ignorant, or generally crappy opinion without being criticized or judged, rather than simply having the freedom to express that uninformed opinion without being tossed in jail.

I was 29, DH was 37. We were both 3 months away from our next birthdays. We've been married five years.

Our relationship has always been easy. We don't fight, we rarely bicker and we truly enjoy being with each other. We attribute a lot of how we go about our relationship to being older when we dated/married. We'd both dated plenty of other people when we met and knew what did / didn't work. We got married 5.5 months after our first date.

I've always said that I was glad I didn't marry what I was dating in my early 20s. I'd probably be divorced or miserable. It's not that they were bad guys, they just weren't right for me! What I looked for in a guy at 29 did not resemble what I looked for at 20.

We met when I was 16 and DH was 20. It wasn't love at first sight, by any means; his best friend and my best friend were going out together so we were sort of thrown together (double dating was the only kind permitted by my parents and hers). We all had a great time together going to the beach, movies and generally 'hanging out'. Fast forward a year and a half and our friends had gone their separate ways, but DH and I were still together - really good friends by that time.

DH proposed on my 19th birthday knowing that I was leaving for university that September. We were thrilled; my parents were not. After two years away, we both knew that we wanted to get married. At 20 (almost 21) and 24, we tied the knot. Last April was our 49th anniversary! There were very few bumps in the road and all being well, we'll celebrate our 50th in April of 2013.

Written by isaku5 » June 10th, 2012, 3:17 pm:DH proposed on my 19th birthday knowing that I was leaving for university that September. We were thrilled; my parents were not. After two years away, we both knew that we wanted to get married. At 20 (almost 21) and 24, we tied the knot. Last April was our 49th anniversary! There were very few bumps in the road and all being well, we'll celebrate our 50th in April of 2013.

First marriage I was 21, he was 22 and we knew each other a short 6-8 months beforehand. It lasted a very long and unhealthy 10 yrs. Second marriage at 34 for me, 30 for DH and we knew each other for about 3 yrs before marrying. We're celebrating our 1st anniversary in about 2 weeks!

I never would have married the first guy if I had been my "older, wiser" self. I also feel like my DH and I absolutely needed to get through our early 20's. There's no way we would have been compatible if we met earlier!

Married my love on June 30, 2011 and welcomed our little Hannah into the world October 4, 2013. Life is sweet!

Written by tammy77 » June 10th, 2012, 9:58 pm:First marriage I was 21, he was 22 and we knew each other a short 6-8 months beforehand. It lasted a very long and unhealthy 10 yrs. Second marriage at 34 for me, 30 for DH and we knew each other for about 3 yrs before marrying. We're celebrating our 1st anniversary in about 2 weeks!

I never would have married the first guy if I had been my "older, wiser" self. I also feel like my DH and I absolutely needed to get through our early 20's. There's no way we would have been compatible if we met earlier!

I met hubs when he was 26.. and let me tell you, there is NO WAY I would've dated him before that. He was still a PIA until 30 But no really, I hear stories about the dumb stuff that he has done and I remind him it's a good thing I met him then!